FOOD SUPPLIES.

Evening Star, Issue 16335, 30 January 1917, Page 3

FOOD SUPPLIES.

OMINOUS GERMAN ADMISSION. / AMSTERDAM, January 29. .An official statement by the Imperial German Food Office declares that, despite the favorable corn crop, the German position is worse than in 1916, owing to the failure of potatoes. A system of economy i must _he carried out immediately if it, is ; bc possible for the nation to hold out I till next harvest. The imports from non- | tral countries are also decreasing. The '.quantity of foodstuffs is very scarce, and [ strict organisation is necessary. This is ; difficult owing to the opposition and reust;ance of large sections of the population ■ ordinances and restrictions issued. ! HUNGARY’S EXTREMITY. . STOCKHOLM, January 28. '• Dimitri Jantchcevetsky, a Russian publicist, has been released after 30 months' I imprisonment in Austria. He states ri.at : there is a universal desire for peace on ■ almost any terms in Austna-llungarv, par- ; ticularly among the Slavs and Magyars. ■ I here is no feeling of bitterness against ;(he Entente. The Emperor, Empress, and Court arc endeavoring to secure indcoe ideuce from Germany. The food supply "is relatively good in the north, but actual hunger prevails in South Hungary and the southern Slav States. Desertions as the result of underfeeding have increased threefold in six monthj. _. LO.N'DOX. January 29. ' Hie -Morning Post's' Budapest corrcs- ; pmidont fays that the latest feature of .the food crisis is the growing desperation of women, who are unable to provide jthcu chikhcu with the hate necessaries of | life. Many are absolutely without coal, ; petroleum, wood, or milk Prices in many 1 cases have risen from 300 to I.OCO per j cent., while the stock of rice in the coim- i try is only 50 waggon loads. Beef is I costing 10s per kilogramme, fat 7s 9d. and ! butter IDs Bd. Xew vegetables cannot hj" ; exacted before. July. Villon a miracle happens tarnmc in the woi-si form is inevitable. The fixing of maximum prices has thus far caused greater scarcity, home robot has been afforded bv pie slaugntenng. The richer Budapest" fanulioa bought, up thousands of small pig,, m the spring, and had them fed in the country- receiving considerable supnlies of poik, hut wholesale slaughter is going on. because, the. Government prohibit' the' use of maize and fodder. It is possihD to restrict the feeding of a few hundred thova city, but I people are not so easily man- i aged. Hundreds of thousands of Socialists ' and other •disaffected elements must V,* reckoned with, while there are millions ! ot women, bereaved and poverty-stricken and possessed of but a. single thought—how chilfii'cn It is impossible to reason with them on political and pnt notic grounds. The next few months mvst reveal the strength of (he millions of uninsti acted and desperate women who have, given their sons and husbands to the anc ni ? xv can endure their misery no Jonirer.